The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality

The fabric of the cosmos : space, time, and the texture of reality / Brian Greene.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greene, B. (Brian), 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.
Subjects:
Cosmology > Popular works.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Reality's arena
  • Part 2: Time and experience
  • Part 3: Spacetime and cosmology
  • Part 4: Origins and unification
  • Part 5: Reality and imagination.
  • Roads to reality : space, time, and why things are as they are
  • The universe and the bucket : Is space a human abstraction or a physical entity?
  • Relativity and the absolute : Is spacetime an Einsteinian abstraction or a physical entity?
  • Entangling space : What does it mean to be separate in a quantum universe?
  • The frozen river : Does time flow?
  • Chance and the arrow : Does time have a direction?
  • Time and the quantum : insights into time's nature from a quantum realm
  • Of snowflakes and spacetime : symmetry and the evolution of the cosmos
  • Vaporizing the vacuum : heat, nothingness, and unification
  • Deconstructing the bang : What banged?
  • Quanta in the sky with diamonds : inflation, quantum jitters, and the arrow of time
  • The world on a string : the fabric according to string theory
  • The universe on a brane : speculations on space and time in M-theory
  • Up in the heavens and down in the Earth : experimenting with space and time
  • Teleporters and time machines : traveling through space and time
  • The future of an allusion : prospects for space and time.

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